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New Boards Hub, Sprint 208 Update

August 2, 2022 Aug 2, 2022 08/2/22
Dan Hellem
Since the March announcement of the New Boards Hub, our team has collected a lot of your feedback. Thank you! We have been hard at work addressing the issues. Every week the experience gets better and better. The issues backlog is getting smaller, and we are getting closer to where we can enable the New Boards Hub as the primary experience. We...

Content archived for Azure DevOps previous versions

July 12, 2022 Jul 12, 2022 07/12/22
Kathryn Elliott
​In April of this year, we completed a major project to archive older versions of our content.  For several years now, we've supported content for all Azure DevOps versions. These versions included TFS 2013 through Azure DevOps Services. Users viewed the content for their versions through the content version ...

Work Item Revision Limits

June 2, 2022 Jun 2, 2022 06/2/22
Dan Hellem
Every time a work item is updated, it creates an entry in the work item history. This is a great feature for users to track all the individual changes made to work items. However, we have seen organizations with automated tools that will generate tens of thousands of work item revisions. It creates issues with performance and usability on the ...

Azure Artifacts introduces new Upstreaming capabilities

May 18, 2022 May 18, 2022 05/18/22
Ankit Kumar
Azure Artifacts is announcing the long-desired feature of supporting Upstreams for Universal Packages across different ADO organizations. For engineers using Azure Artifacts, Universal Packages are a useful tool when managing and sharing large packages across different feeds. They allow for utilizing packages that are not supported by Azure ...

DevOps for Java on Azure

May 18, 2022 May 18, 2022 05/18/22
April Edwards
Azure loves Java, bring your favorite tools and frameworks to Azure! In this 3-part series of our DevOps for Java Shops, Brian Benz stops by to highlight the easiest ways for Java developers to work with their IT organizations and partners to deliver their code to the cloud, including the best ways to reliably make updates and maintain ...